He serves as president longer than anyone else, but gets mixed reviews.
The story of Alonzo Church.

Alonzo S. Church was born in Brattleboro on this day in 1793. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1816, specializing in math. Church would go on to become a professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia.

After ten years of teaching, he was appointed the University's sixth president. Church would serve as president for the next thirty years, the longest term in the University's history.

Various problems between the student body and the faculty during his tenure, led to faculty dissatisfaction and a decline in enrollment. Despite that, the University grew physically, with classrooms and six new buildings.

Image courtesy Brattleboro, Vermont by C.L. Howe & Son.

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